Daddy's Little Helpers

What is it they say about childhood and dirt? By the end of it (childhood) you will have consumed a pound of it (dirt)? If that's the case, then my boys have a serious head start on that old adage!

This afternoon they "helped" Daddy with the dismantling of the dirt pile. I couldn't resist snapping a few pictures to post and then pasting in a few earthly sayings I found online ... Happy (almost) Earth Day!

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"Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in nature ~ daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it ~ rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks. The solid earth!" ~ Henry David Thoreau

"A piece of the sky and a chunk of the earth is lodged in the heart of every human being." ~ Thomas Moore

"Now I see the secret of making the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." ~ Walt Whitman

"Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee through a yielding soil with pride." ~ William Wordsworth